The May 2010 Euthanasia Prevention Coalition Newsletter can now be found at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/Newsletters/Newsletter108(May2010)(RGB).pdf Bill C-384 was soundly defeated by a vote of 228 to 59. Check how the Members of Parliament voted at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/HowTheyVoted.pdf On June 5, 2010, we are co-hosting the US/Canda Push-Back Seminar at the Radisson Gateway Hotel at the Seattle/Tacoma Airport. The overwhelming defeat of Bill C-384 proved that we can Push-Back the euthanasia lobby in the US and Canada and convince people that euthanasia and assisted suicide are a dangerous public policy. Register for the Seminar at: http://www.euthanasiaprevention.on.ca/2010SeminarFlyer(RGB)(LetterFormat).pdf The Schindler family are being attacked by a Florida television station and Michael Schiavo. The Euthanasia Prevention Coalition is standing in solidarity with the Schindler family. My blog comments: http://alexschadenberg.blogspot.com/2010/05/att
Reflections from the pastoral ministry of an Evangelical Catholic Priest.
The US has a constitutional amendment that requires the state to not endorse a religion. We in Canada don't. My experience growing up in a area that was quite anti-Catholic was that public schools pushed the Protestant version of Christianity. We recited the Protestant version of the Lord's prayer, read from the King James Bible and in junior high the entire school was taken to a showing of "The cross and the switchblade" complete with Baptist ministers to receive our conversion to Jesus. (This was in public school in the 60's and 70's in Canada). Also the Christmas concert was a nativity recreation and non stop Christmas carols which, during Advent, as a Catholic I found unusual.
ReplyDeleteNow at my son's school the Winter concert is a combination of themes. There are Christian carols including a student rearrangement of an old Danish carol, but also songs from the traditions that are more inclusive, Jewish, Muslim, native, etc. I find this much more enjoyable and comfortable.
Michael: I have no issue with what you wrote since you are open to seasonal music, be it religious or secular. The folks who are described in the article are not nearly as open-minded as you since they are doing their best to wipe every and all vestige of religious expression from the public square.
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